Surfacing device



Aug. 1 4, 1934. F. RIEBEL, JR.; Er AL 1,970,191

SURFACING DEVICE Filed Jan. 25. 1952 ven u//TA/ESS Patented Aug. 14, 1934 l i UNiTEo STATES SURFACING DEVICE Frederick Riebel, Jr., Dewey M. Dow, and Lawrence M. Henson, Toledo, Ohio, assignors to vAir-Way Electric Appliance Corporation, Toledo, Ohio, a corporation of Delaware Application January 25, 1932, Serial No. 588,830

12 Claims.

Our invention relates broadly to surfacers, and particularly to that type of surfacer in which a renewable package comprising a body of surfacing material and a flexible containing wrapper encasing said body, is employed. The material for which the invention is specifically adapted, is semi-fluid wax.

One object of the present invention is to provideA means for slitting that wall of the flexible wrapper which is adjacent the surface being treated when the device is in use, after the package of wax has been installed in the applicator.

A further object is to provide a device for thus slitting the wrapper, which is of simple and inexpensive construction.

Another object isV to provide a novel applicator structure including a shoe for applying pressure to the wax package, a flexible distributor cover serving to encase the wax package, to distribute the wax upon a surface being treated, and to suspend the package from the shoe, and a tie element laced to the peripheral portions of the distributor cover and serving to secure the cover in embracing relation to the shoe. i

A further object is to provide the arrangement mentioned in the foregoing paragraph, in a relatively simple, durable and inexpensive structure.

Another object of our invention is to provide an applicator which includes a coupler adapted to attach the applicator to the'loor toolof a vacuum cleaner of a type having a downwardly opening mouth or nozzle defined between spaced lips, the coupler including upwardly projecting ears for frictional engagement with said lips, whereby the applicator may be instantly attached or detached to or from the iioor tool.

With these and other objects in View our invention consists in the combination and construction and arrangement of the various parts thereof, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as more fully set forth in the accompanying specifications, pointed'outin our claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing,l in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan Yview of the waxer. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view therethrough. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view through th same and through a vacuum cleaner floor tool to which the same is attached.

Fig. 4 is an inverted plan view of one end of the waxer.

The waxer includes a wax package which is referred to generally by the reference character .V5.5 A and an applicator referred to generally by the reference character B.

The package A includes a body of wax 10 and a flexible wrapper 11 encasing the body of wax.

The wrapper 11 may be of any impervious flexible material having suicient strength to resist rupture under the pressure of the applicator such as the wrapping material commercially known as ,cellophane. This material is particularly desirable for the reason that in very thin sheets it has considerable strength againstv rupture, and is non-porous to liquids.

The applicator B includes a head 12 of some stiff material, and we preferably employ a heavy cardboard, which is relatively inexpensive. Secured to the upper face of the head 12 is a coupler C comprising a plate 13 of sheet metal the end portions of which are struck downwardly to provide the lugs 14 extended through slots in the shoe 13 and thence hooked beneath the shoe as shown in Fig. 2. The lugs 14 secure the plate 13 in face to face contact with the `head 12.

On one edge of the plate 13 are formed a series `of hooks, 15 which secure one side of the distributor cover 16. The cover 16 is formed of a Vflexible material, preferably a fabric, and is extended around the package A and thence over the edges of the head 12. The peripheral portions of the cover 16, except that side which is secured by the hooks 15, are laced by a draw string 17, laced through openings 18 in saidperipheral portion. The ends of the draw string are secured as at 19 in the peripheral portion of the cover adjacent the ends of the line of hooks 15. The draw string is preferably formed in two parts which are tied together as at 20 after the cover has been pulled tight around the edges of the head 12.

A flexible pull element is secured at 21 to one end of the head l2, is extended into-the. package A through the wrapper 11 at 22, is thence extended longitudinally through the package inside of the wrapper 11 adjacent the bottom wall thereof as at 23, is thence hooked through the wrapper as at 24, and is thence extended between the wrapper and the cover 16 as at 25 and is thence extended through an opening 26 in the end of the cover adjacent the point of attachment 21, to provide a free end 27 which may be grasped and pulled.

It will be seen that by purine the free vend 2'? of the pullelement, that the intermediateportion thereof will cut or slit the bottom wall of the wrapper 11 along a line extening longitudinally of the package AA so as to provide an aperture through which wax may be fed during the operation of the applicator.

The cover member 16 is preferably of porous material so that the wax which exudes from the slit thus formed may soak through the distributor and be applied to a floor surface or the like by movement of the distributor over said surface.

The waxer is adapted to be attached to the iioor tool or nozzle 28 of a vacuumcleaner of the type wherein such floor tool or nozzle has a pair of spaced lips 29 in which downwardly opening recesses 30 adapted normally to receive the attachment members of a certain attachment device. This particular type of oor tocl has agitator members 31 which, however, for the purpose of the present invention are considered as part of the lips 29.

The coupler member Cfs provided near its ends with pairs of upstruck ears 32 which are receivable in the recesses 30. A pair of ears 33 are struck up from the central region of the plate 13 and frictionally engage the inner sides of the lips 29 (the actualcontact in this particular. type of floor tool is with the agitator members 31). .e A

The lip portions are frictionallyengaged between the ears 32 and the ears 33 so that the applicator may be suspended from the oor tool 28.

It will now be noted that the weight of the Vvacuum cleaner conveyed to the upper side of the head 12, will serve to force said head against the wax package .to produce a pressure in the body of wax for causing the latter to feed through the slit inthe lower wall of the wrapper 11. vThe natural pressure of the weight of the cleaner may be supplemented by the weight of the operator bearing down against the vacuum cleaner as he uses the device. n

The wrapper 11 may be sealed in place around the body of wax and the package thus shipped without `danger of the waxleaking to the exterior of they package. It is highly desirable of course that the package be shipped and handled without soiling, and that the wax be exposed only when the package isready for use.v This result is secured by providing means for slitting the wrapper after .the package has beenv placed in the applicator.

The. distributor cover can be readily released to allow replacement of the used package with a .fresh one. One side of the coverY however is permanently secured in place relative to the head 12. .Thefrictional engagement of the ears 33 and 32 is sufficient to support the waxer in suspended relation from the floor tool, yet the device may be very readily applied to or removed from the floor tool.` By utilizing the recesses in the floor tooLthe waxerfmay be accurately centered between the ends of the floor tool.

We claim asl our invention:

-1.111A a wax package for surfacer, a body ofY surfacing material, a wrapper of frangible material -encasing said body and in` direct contact therewith, and a flexible pull element extending longitudinally `inside the wrapper and adapted, when'pulled, to -slit the Ywrapper to for-m a dis- -charge mouth in the wall of the wrapper.

2; A wax package comprising a body of wax, a wrapper of frangible material encasing the same-and in direct contact therewith, and a flexible'pullelement anchored at one end tothe packlage, :extending longitudinally inside the wrapper, and its other end projecting outside the wrapper, fs'aid :element Vadapted to cut the ,wrapper when pulled to form a discharge mouth in the wall of the wrapper.

3. A surfacer comprising a presser head, a body of surfacing material, a wrapper encasing the body, a distributor cover encasing the body and its wrapper and having a portion for engagingk a surface to be treated, and secured to the head, and a flexible pull element anchored, at one end, to the head, extending for a portion of its length inside the wrapper, and its other end projecting outside the wrapper, said element adapted to slit the Wrapper when pulled to form a discharge mouth in the Wall of said wrapper which is adjacent the surface engaging portion of the cover.

4.'A surfacer comprising a body of surfacing material, a-wrapper encasing the body, a distributor cover encasing the body and its wrapper and having a portion for engaging a surface to be treated, and a pull element extending, for a portion of its length, inside the wrapper, its

other end projecting outside thewrapper, said element adapted, when pulled, to slit the wrapper to form a discharge mouth in the wall of said wrapper which is adjacent theV surface engaging portion of the cover.

5. A surfacerfcomprising a body of surfacing material, a wrapper encasing the body, a porous distributor cover encasing the body and its Wrapper and having a portion for engaging a surface to be treated, and a pull element extending, for a portion of its length, inside the wrapper, its other end projecting outside the wrapper, said element adapted, when pulled, to slit the wrapper to form a discharge mouth in the wall of said wrapper which is adjacent the surface engaging portion of the cover.

6. A surfacer comprising a body of surfacing material, a wrapper encasing the same, a distributor cover encasing the body and its wrapper and having a portion for engaging a surface to be treated, and a pull element including a portion hooked through the wrapper, and a portion ex'- tending outside Vthe wrapper whereby said hooked portion may be pulled through the wrapper to slit the same to form a discharge mouth in the 4wall cf said wrapper which is adjacent the surface engaging portion of the cover.

7. A surfacer comprising a body of surfacing material, a wrapper encasing the same, a distributor cover encasing the body and its wrapper, and a pull element including a portion hooked through the wrapper, a portion extending between the cover andthe wrapper, and a free end projecting outside the cover whereby saidhooked ,portionl may be pulled through the wrapper to slit the same.

8. A surfacercomprising a head, a body of wax, a distributor encasing said bodyv of wax and suspended from the head, a wrapper encasing the body of wax and disposed withinthe distributor,

and a flexible pull element secured at one end to the head, thence extending into and longitudinally inside ofthe wrapper, thence extending through the bottom wall of the wrappr at a tion projecting outside of the wrapper to be grasped and pulled for causing said hooked portion to slit the wrapper to form a discharge mouth in the wall of the wrapper.

10. A surfacer comprising a head, a body of surfacing material, a flexible distributor cover encasing said body and suspended from the head and a coupler comprising a plate lying against the upper face of the head and provided with spaced ears projecting upwardly, one edge of said plate having hooks securing one side of the dis-- tributor cover, and lugs struck from said plate, extended through the head, and hooked therebeneath.

11. A suracer for attachment to a Vacuum 1 cleaner iioor tool of the type having spaced lips provided with downwardly opening recesses, comprising a head, a body of surfacing material suspended therebelow, and a coupler comprising ears extending upwardly from the head and adapted to frictonally engage in said recesses.

12. A surfacer comprising a head, a body of Wax, a flexible distributor cover encasing said body of Wax and suspended from the head and a coupler comprising a plate lying against the upper face of the head and provided with spaced ears projecting upwardly, one edge of said plate having hooks securing one side of the distributor cover, and lugs struck from said plate, extended through the head, and hooked therebeneath, and. ears extending upwardly from the head and adapted to engage the inner sides of said lips.

FREDERICK RIEBEL, JR. LAWRENCE M. HENSON. DEWEY M. DOW. 

